The T-Cross is Volkswagen’s smallest SUV to date. Ryan Hirons asks whether it can be a big success.

Volkswagen AG and the Ford Motor Company have announced the first formal agreements in a broad alliance which will see a range of co-operative ventures between the two car makers.

MUCH like every other aspect of our lives, the whole distasteful and mind-warping Brexit conundrum impacted greatly on the motor industry, causing fear and uncertainly and prompting another year of falling new car sales and, for the trade, the increasingly worrying spectre of more than 100,000 used cars being imported from the UK.

It is hard to credit that the VW Polo has been with us since 1975 and that we are now looking at the sixth generation of a machine that has gestated from utilitarian micromini into a sophisticated and technologically crammed supermini.

Do you want to hear a tale of adventure, tragedy, heroism, derring-do and sheer naked excitement? Well let me tell you about the new Volkswagen eGolf and a story which involves all of the above.